Every month, we’re really happy to host ManhattanJS, a group of JS enthusiasts (including a bunch of our alums!) who bring great programmers together to talk about their work, passions, and sometimes cats. Yesterday evening marked the latest of these gatherings—and we had a blast. Here’s proof! All photo credits go to the talented Matthew
Using the Twitter Streaming API liz-baillie: For my upcoming Flatiron Presents Meetup presentation (which is TONIGHT, eek!), my presentation partner Luke and I went through a number of ideas before settling on the topic of Using the Ruby-Processing Gem. After explaining how the gem works and what it does, we initially wanted to reenact a…
Like so many of our alums, Michael and Joe both applied to Flatiron School at points in their lives when they weren’t sure what was next: Joe was an economics major turned Marine, and Michael was shirking questions about applying to PhD programs. Now full-time developers, they used their time at Flatiron to level up
… and Ruby 005 student Ben Serviss has cleverly used them as an analogy for learning to program. Who knew! Here’s his post, reblogged from here. The first time I walked into The Flatiron School, I thought to myself: “What are these crazy orange things?” I had come to one of the weekly NYC on Rails meetups
We are thrilled that The New York Times chatted with recent alum Jahmil Eady about her experience with the NYC Web Development Fellowship. The program is incredibly special to us, and it’s awesome to comb through tweets to see Jahmil’s story excite and inspire people—mostly because of how deeply it excites and inspires us. The
The following is a guest post by John Richardson and originally appeared on his blog. John is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Background: ADK 46-R The ADK 46ers are a set of 46 mountains in upstate NY higher than 4000 feet. If you climb all of these
The following is a guest post by Greg Eng and originally appeared on his blog. Greg is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. In that case, you have to do a little more than just hide them. Typically, an API will require a key or authentication token before
The following is a guest post by David Bella and originally appeared on his blog. David is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Okay, So More Like “List” Relational databases are a great way to store, well, related data, in a base. Often times, we have to store
There are two ways to add a module to a class, include and extend.
The following is a guest post by Daniel Chang and originally appeared on his blog. Daniel is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Week 2 of learning Rails. After 6 weeks at Flatiron, I feel like a beginner again, but not quite like I’m stranded on a deserted
Before understanding the need for strong params in Rails, let’s take a look at the idea of mass assignment in Ruby.
Improving the gem meant a massive restructure of my previous gem, which was designed with one league in mind.
Kicking-off week 5 we started the morning with pair coding on our class App LocationQuiz
The following is a guest post by Charlotte Chang and originally appeared on her blog. Charlotte is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. Click image below to access presentation…